Memory lane

Themaadone wrote:

I remember the NAAFI tipple of my choice being Carling Black Lable at 89 pence a pint....

Oh, what lovely times.

Carling Black Label? Good heavens, now there is a brand name from out of the past!! For many years their ads in Canada consisted of some guy off camera whistling a two-note whistle, the type used to attract a waitress' attention, followed by "Hey Mabel....Black Label!" Mabel, as I recall, was a perpetually smiling, buxom wench whose goal in life was to keep serving the menfolk with glasses of foaming Black Label beer.

Black Label is now seen as bit of a 'low rent' brand...in fact, while I still see it on the shelves of various liquor stores and beer stores, I never see anyone actually drinking it!

Teabag wrote:

Hardrations wrote:

Red Barrel. I enjoyed that, still have a key fob from Red Barrel some where. And Double Diamond I enjoyed, but being Canadian maybe that help me enjoy it. Black Lable??? That's yank, how can one enjoy that...

Double Diamond was a young mans drink and then you grew up and realised it was crap. Black Label i.e. Carling is not a Yank drink. You must be confusing it with something else.

First time I drank it was 1/10d. Less than 10p. Amazing really but I was only on about 11 quid a week.

Yank? I always thought Carling was part of the Carling-O'Keefe brewery (Canadian, based out of, I believe, either Toronto or Montreal).

Stephen Lock wrote:

Themaadone wrote:

I remember the NAAFI tipple of my choice being Carling Black Lable at 89 pence a pint....

Oh, what lovely times.

Carling Black Label? Good heavens, now there is a brand name from out of the past!! For many years their ads in Canada consisted of some guy off camera whistling a two-note whistle, the type used to attract a waitress' attention, followed by "Hey Mabel....Black Label!" Mabel, as I recall, was a perpetually smiling, buxom wench whose goal in life was to keep serving the menfolk with glasses of foaming Black Label beer.

Black Label is now seen as bit of a 'low rent' brand...in fact, while I still see it on the shelves of various liquor stores and beer stores, I never see anyone actually drinking it!

The Brit equivalent ad would be a young lad doing a stunt or other (something "zany") and the onlookers would remark "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label".

if we are starting on the tv ads then the best ones i think are the Aussies for there Fosters
or is it XXXX

Shelldrake wrote:

Stephen Lock wrote:

Themaadone wrote:

I remember the NAAFI tipple of my choice being Carling Black Lable at 89 pence a pint....

Oh, what lovely times.

Carling Black Label? Good heavens, now there is a brand name from out of the past!! For many years their ads in Canada consisted of some guy off camera whistling a two-note whistle, the type used to attract a waitress' attention, followed by "Hey Mabel....Black Label!" Mabel, as I recall, was a perpetually smiling, buxom wench whose goal in life was to keep serving the menfolk with glasses of foaming Black Label beer.

Black Label is now seen as bit of a 'low rent' brand...in fact, while I still see it on the shelves of various liquor stores and beer stores, I never see anyone actually drinking it!

The Brit equivalent ad would be a young lad doing a stunt or other (something "zany") and the onlookers would remark "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label".

Actually one of the lads posted those Black Label commercials on this forum a few months ago. I thought the one about the German AA gunner doing the football goalie saves at the Mohne Dam was hilarious.

jim wrote:

Ouch Nukie Brown, had many of a stinker hangover from that

The hangover from hell with that stuff. Couldn't drink it now. Anyone else remember Newcastle Amber? I suppose it was/is what Newcastle wor lasses drink while the men stick to Brown? Happy to declare myself a lass if that is the case.

Good new Zealand brew.... Steinlager

Beer advert ?

A couple of years ago there was an ad (I think it was for Budweiser).

It's shot in the US, there's a train rolling through a stockyard, lit by the morning sun.

Inside there's some cool dudes playing cards, playing in the background is Howling Wolf singing "Smokestack Lightnin'.

Now that was good !

one of the best ad is the two Aussie guys fill there pickup full of cans when one says"I guess we should bring something for the shelas"and they place a bottle of sherry on top andthen the whole thing collapses!!the look on ther faces says it all

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Anyone else remember Newcastle Amber?

I spent a Saturday night and Sunday morning with a couple of cases of that stuff in the Cpl`s mess at 8 Sigs ..I was still quite rough on Monday morning when i took my T1 exam..Strangely i managed to pass

Gordon. wrote:

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Anyone else remember Newcastle Amber?

I spent a Saturday night and Sunday morning with a couple of cases of that stuff in the Cpl`s mess at 8 Sigs ..I was still quite rough on Monday morning when i took my T1 exam..Strangely i managed to pass

They had a corporals mess at 8 Sigs? Ooh sorry sir 8th Signal Regiment?

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Ooh sorry sir 8th Signal Regiment?

8 Signal Regiment Sir .............No th


http://www.army.mod.uk/signals/organisation/default.aspx

Shame on you Teabag.You should be bust to Captain for that

"john boy" wrote:

jim wrote:

Ouch Nukie Brown, had many of a stinker hangover from that

the most i drunk of that stuff in one session was 14 pints at xmas party in Aldershot yeah what a hangover that was

Jeez, that would have killed me.

I've never heard of Newcastle amber

Amber was a weaker version of brown.

jim wrote:

"john boy" wrote:

jim wrote:

Ouch Nukie Brown, had many of a stinker hangover from that

the most i drunk of that stuff in one session was 14 pints at xmas party in Aldershot yeah what a hangover that was

Jeez, that would have killed me.

I've never heard of Newcastle amber

The best of it was Jim the following morning the drill instructors came round with the traditional tea urn and whiskey !!! what a waste of a good cup of tea

question: Is the tradition of the officers and senior NCO to serve tea&whiskey/brandy at xmas time to the recruits at reveille? or has the H&S brigade or some other do gooding mob stepped in ?

You're joking - you'll be lucky to be served alcohol in the Mess thesedays!

I always got rum,never the water of life

Shelldrake wrote:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMOQIwoVwoY

Well, that one was rather clever....in a Pythonesque sort of way....nice little touches like the squire inadvertently shoving Excalibur into the rock with an "oh, crap!" look on his face, etc.

Gordon. wrote:

I always got rum,never the water of life

I was a delicate child, I just had the Tea.

Gordon. wrote:

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Ooh sorry sir 8th Signal Regiment?

8 Signal Regiment Sir .............No th


http://www.army.mod.uk/signals/organisation/default.aspx

Shame on you Teabag.You should be bust to Captain for that

8, 8th some god forsaken hole in Catterick (in fact in my day there were two camps called 8 Sigs). Where was the corporals mess and was it only for permanent staff? I never got an invite when I was on courses.

Yep it was a god forsaken hole in Catterick .Just opposite the ORs cookhouse.In the Tech training part of the camp .Open to PS and upgraders.I seem to remember the other part was over a gully and there was a naafi and other odds and sods there.The accomodation was brick blocks and spiders. this was 63/64 .I`ll try and find some pics.I was at Catterick 7 times and still don`t know my way around it

I went there once when I was retrading from Supply Specialist to Driver Radio Operator RLC (Which was an A trade - made the scalies jealous).

It's a barren and sad little outpost very much like Blackdown!

I was told that the Cpls mess was out of bounds to all but people on long courses (over 3 months) and PS.

My time there was 5 weeks learning about Ptarmigan etc so not elligible bugger off.

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It's a barren and sad little outpost

and cold and windy.